Workers' Rights - Peace and Justice Studies Association https://www.peacejusticestudies.org Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:09:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-icon-1-32x32.png Workers' Rights - Peace and Justice Studies Association https://www.peacejusticestudies.org 32 32 Germinal https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/film/germinal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=germinal Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:09:30 +0000 https://wp.peacejusticestudies.org/?post_type=film&p=1727 In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal-mining town’s workers are exploited by the mine’s owner. The workers then decide to go on strike, as the authorities […]

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]]> Matewan https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/film/matewan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matewan Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:55:55 +0000 https://wp.peacejusticestudies.org/?post_type=film&p=1670 A labor union leader comes to a mining community that is brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

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]]> Norma Rae https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/film/norma-rae/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=norma-rae Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:21:16 +0000 https://wp.peacejusticestudies.org/?post_type=film&p=1658 A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill in spite of the dangers and risks involved.

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